Morality and health
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Morality and health
Routledge, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
From the castigation and stigmatization of victims of AIDS to our celebration of diet, exercise and fitness, the moral categorization of health and disease reflects contemporary notions that disease results from moral failure and that health is the representation of moral triumph. Ranging across academic disciplines and historical time periods, the essays in Morality andHealth offer a compelling assessment of the powerful role of moral systems for judging the complex questions of risk and responsibility for disease, the experience of illness, and social and cultural responses to those who are sick. Contributors include Keith Thomas, Charles Rosenberg, Richard Shweder, Arthur Kleinman, David Mechanic, Nancy Tomes and Linda Gordon.
Table of Contents
Allan M. Brandt and Paul Rozin PERSPECTIVES ON MORALITY AND HEALTH Keith Thomas - Health and Morality in Early Modern England Charles Rosenberg - Banishing Risk: Continuity and Change in the Moral Management of Disease Allan M. Brandt - Behavior, Disease, and Health in the Twentieth-Century United States: The Moral Valence of Individual Risk David Mechanic - The Social Context of Health and Disease and Choices MORALITY AND CULTURE Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman - Moral Transformations of Health and Suffering in Chinese Society Richard A. Shweder, Nancy C. Much, Manamohan Mahapatra, and Lawrence Park - The Big Three of Morality (Autonomy, Community, Divinity) and the Big Three Explanations of Suffering MORALITY AND BEHAVIOR IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT Sidney Mintz - Sugar and Morality Warren Belasco - Food, Morality, and Social Reform Joseph R. Gusfield - Alcohol in America: The Entangled Frames of Health and Morality David T. Courtwright - Morality, Religion and Drug Use Linda Gordon - Teenage Pregnancy and Out-of-Wedlock Birth: Morals, Moralism, Experts Nancy Tomes - Moralizing the Microbe: The Germ Theory and the Moral Construction of Behavior in the Late Nineteenth-Century Antituberculosis Movement CONTEMOPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON MORALITY AND HEALTH Solomon Katz - Secular Morality Lawrence Gostin - The Legal Regulation of Smoking (and Smokers): Public Health or Secular Morality? Howard M. Leichter - Lifestyle Correctness and the New Secular Morality Paul Rozin - Moralization
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